H. Adam Steinberg
Wen Chyan
Michael Bucci
Corinne Esquibel
Utibe Bickham-Wright
Tom Zinnen
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H. Adam Steinberg visualizes scientific data and teaches scientific communication at artforscience.com and Storyform Science, for two previous decades he was the Artist/Scientist at UW-Madison's Department of Biochemistry. Over the last 30 years he has worked on many thousands of research articles, reviews, covers, grants, pitch decks, posters, textbooks and scientific presentations for researchers, startups, and pharmaceutical companies. Adam has been teaching Undergrads, Post docs, and faculty for 25 years now, on how to effectively communicate their science, and on how to visualize their data, giving numerous talks on these topics at many colleges, universities, and pharmaceutical companies throughout the United States. He also spends considerable time mentoring and teaching students at local K-12 schools.
Wen is a consultant out of the Chicago office with McKinsey & Company. Wen has been at McKinsey for ~3 years and primarily focuses on strategy and operations work within capital-intensive industries such as automotive manufacturing, energy, and specialty chemicals. Prior to joining McKinsey, Wen completed a PhD in chemistry from MIT working on development of fluorogenic probes for biological processes as well as cytosolic delivery of biomolecules.
Michael Bucci is a patent agent in the Chicago Office of Dechert LLP. His work involves patent application preparation and patent application prosecution with an emphasis in biotechnology. Michael works with clients interested in a range of technologies including: gene therapy agents, genetic engineering, CRISPR gene editing systems, therapeutic stem cells, and polymers. Additionally, he has experience performing prior art analyses such as landscape and freedom-to-operate studies. Before joining Dechert in February of 2021, Michael worked as a patent agent at another global law firm from 2017-2020. Michael graduated from UW-Madison's MDTP program in August of 2017.
Dr. Corinne Esquibel earned a B.S. in biology from Truman State University followed by a Ph.D. in molecular and cellular pharmacology from University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied circuit-level neuroscience using optical imaging methods. She then joined the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) at University of Wisconsin as a postdoctoral researcher under the mentorship of Kevin W. Eliceiri. In addition to designing and implementing intravital, in vivo, ex vivo and in vitro imaging studies for a range of research applications, Corinne focused a significant portion of her training on the effective management of microscopy core facilities. In 2017, she joined Van Andel Institute as manager of its Optical Imaging Core, which provides comprehensive imaging services to investigators at the VAI and their collaborators.
Dr. Utibe Bickham-Wright earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Louisiana State University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Pathology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her doctoral thesis focused on the infectious disease schistosomiasis, specifically parasite-host interactions. She has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications and communicated her work to nonscientific and scientific audiences. She was a recipient of the Chester A. Herrick Award for the Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation and was also inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in recognition of her advocacy, character, leadership, scholarship and service. She promotes science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Outreach and seeks to reduce gender and race disparities in STEM education and related fields. Dr. Utibe Bickham-Wright is currently a 2020-2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the ADVANCE Program in the Division of Human Resource Development, Directorate for Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation.
Tom Zinnen is a Biotechnology Policy & Outreach Specialist with the Biotechnology Center of UW-Madison, and a State 4-H Specialist with UW-Madison Division of Extension. He was born and raised in Dixon, IL and became interested in gardens, plants and horticulture through working with his grandfather and through his vocational agriculture classes in high school. He studied biology at UW-Platteville, received his MS in Plant Pathology from the University of Illinois for work on soybean seed pathology, and received his PhD in plant pathology from UW-Madison for research on induced resistance of plants to viruses. He was a post-doctoral researcher in 1985-86 at Agrigenetics Corporation in Madison working to develop virus-resistant transgenic crops, and then served on the faculty at Northern Illinois University. He returned to UW-Madison in 1991 to take his current position. In fall of 1995 the Biotechnology Center moved into its new building, and Zinnen became responsible for welcoming the public to the Biotech Center to experience science as exploring the unknown through field trips using the Center's two Outreach Labs. In 1998 he proposed converting the historic UW Dairy Barn into a Wisconsin Idea Science Center to welcome the public to their land-grant university. In 2000-2001 he served as a Congressional Science Fellow with the House Committee on Agriculture. In 2003 he helped launch the annual UW-Madison Science Expeditions, the campus-wide open house, now in its 19th year. That year he also co-founded the UW Science Alliance to help cultivate the community of science outreachers all across campus. In 2006 he co-founded the Wednesday Nite @ The Lab public science series held at the Biotechnology Center every Wednesday night, 50 times a year; about 2/3 of WN@TL presentations are later broadcast statewide on PBS Wisconsin. From 2008-2010 Zinnen was a rotator on loan to the National Science Foundation working as a speechwriter for the Director of NSF. Now completing his 30th year at UW-Madison, Zinnen works to help learners of all ages develop their science savvy so they can use science more effectively in making personal choices, in forming public policies, and in making decisions in the face of uncertainty.
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